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LibriVox recording of As You Like It, by William Shakespeare.
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love Orlando also shows up in the forest, she courts him without revealing her identity. Meanwhile, Phebe mistakenly falls in love with her disguise, Silvius pines for Phebe, Jacques philosophizes, and Touchstone makes fun of it all, and love and happiness triumph (for the most part) as Rosalind orchestrates a happy ending amid the confusion. (Summary by Rosalind Wills)
Cast:
Duke Senior –hefyd
Duke Frederick – Chugosh
Amiens -- Cecelia Prior
Jaques -- Elizabeth Klett
Le Beau -- Simon Larois
Charles -- Leon Mire
Oliver -- Larysa Jaworski
Jacques du Boys and Second Lord -- David Lawrence
Orlando -- mb
Adam – Brian Edwards
Dennis – Annoying Twit
Touchstone -- Mark F. Smith
Sir Oliver Martext -- Aaron Elliott
Corin – Sibella Denton
Silvius -- David Nicol
William -- Ernst Pattynama
Hymen -- Lorelle Anderson
Rosalind -- Rosalind Wills
Celia – Philippa
Phebe -- Charlene V. Smith
Audrey – Mindy H
First Lord – Mirza
First Page – Ruth Golding
Second Page – David O'Connell
Forester – pla303
Stage directions – Laurie Anne Walden
Audio edited by Rosalind Wills
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
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One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love Orlando also shows up in the forest, she courts him without revealing her identity. Meanwhile, Phebe mistakenly falls in love with her disguise, Silvius pines for Phebe, Jacques philosophizes, and Touchstone makes fun of it all, and love and happiness triumph (for the most part) as Rosalind orchestrates a happy ending amid the confusion. (Summary by Rosalind Wills)
Cast:
Duke Senior –hefyd
Duke Frederick – Chugosh
Amiens -- Cecelia Prior
Jaques -- Elizabeth Klett
Le Beau -- Simon Larois
Charles -- Leon Mire
Oliver -- Larysa Jaworski
Jacques du Boys and Second Lord -- David Lawrence
Orlando -- mb
Adam – Brian Edwards
Dennis – Annoying Twit
Touchstone -- Mark F. Smith
Sir Oliver Martext -- Aaron Elliott
Corin – Sibella Denton
Silvius -- David Nicol
William -- Ernst Pattynama
Hymen -- Lorelle Anderson
Rosalind -- Rosalind Wills
Celia – Philippa
Phebe -- Charlene V. Smith
Audrey – Mindy H
First Lord – Mirza
First Page – Ruth Golding
Second Page – David O'Connell
Forester – pla303
Stage directions – Laurie Anne Walden
Audio edited by Rosalind Wills
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Download M4B (66MB)
Reviews
Reviewer:
librivoxbooks
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December 4, 2020
Subject: Another version
Subject: Another version
I haven't listened to either version, but there's another one: https://archive.org/details/asyoulikeit_1211_librivox Perhaps it's more to your taste. :)
Reviewer:
ZaPenguin
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December 4, 2020
Subject: Read, but not understood
Subject: Read, but not understood
With some exceptions, the cast here isn't acting so much as they are reading aloud from a book whose words they barely understand. The voices are monotone and without the prosody of meaning, actors even read their own stage directions with no change of infliction to denote what is and isn't actually voiced by their character.
It's listenable, in the most literal sense of the word - a minimum of background noise, and is edited relatively well - but it's not the least bit enjoyable.
It's listenable, in the most literal sense of the word - a minimum of background noise, and is edited relatively well - but it's not the least bit enjoyable.
